the problem with readDir is slowness due to reading thousands of files... nix codegen would fix that :)
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:29 PM Daniel Peebles <pumpkin...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought that at some point there was an effort to autogenerate > (dynamically, so not nix codegen) the list from readDir. If not, it seems > like the majority of packages could work that way, along with room to > override where necessary. > > > > > On May 7, 2015, at 08:10, Wout Mertens <wout.mert...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > all-packages.nix is gigantic, and because it's so large, github search > doesn't index it. > > > > Would it be a good idea to move the attribute definitions into files per > package section? > > > > So everything would still be in the pkgs attrset, only the definitions > would be split across multiple files. > > _______________________________________________ > > nix-dev mailing list > > nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl > > http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev >
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